View Mount Tambora Eruption 1815 Effects Background. Mount tambora is an active volcano on the island of sumbawa in indonesia. It is also known as a.
On april 5, 1815, the giant mount tambora, which at that time had an altitude of around 4,300 meters above sea level (masl), in the sanggar lieutenant philips was assigned by raffless to examine the effects of the eruption.
The 1815 eruption of mount tambora was the most powerful in human recorded history, with a volcanic explosivity index (vei) of 7. It has been estimated that mount tambora stood approximately 12,000 feet tall before the 1815 eruption when the top third of the mountain was. Effects of the tambora eruption. Kirstin and i take a look at five affects that the mount tambora eruption of 1815 had.